Chapter 67: Housewarming to a new home and a new mansion for a banquet
Lin Ruhai originally thought that the Jia family had a funeral, so it was inconvenient to disturb the Jia family, and since Daiyu returned home, he also heard Mama Li say that on the first day Daiyu entered Jia's mansion, Jia Baoyu made trouble in front of Lin Daiyu's door, and he felt a little dislike for Jia Baoyu in his heart.
It's just that Jia Baoyu is young after all, and the Jia family has always doted on him, which caused Baoyu to abandon his studies and act absurdly.
Lin Ruhai was thinking about training Jia Baoyu well, but he didn't expect Jia Baoyu to find it by himself, so Lin Ruhai asked Jia Baoyu to lead him to his study and began to teach Jia Baoyu the truth of how to behave in the world.
Jia Baoyu wanted to see Lin Daiyu and was extremely impatient with Lin Ruhai's preaching, but because Lin Ruhai was Daiyu's father, he could only endure the unhappiness and listen to Lin Ruhai's tirade.
After Lin Ruhai stopped, Jia Baoyu asked, "Can I go to see Sister Lin?" ”
Lin Ruhai was immediately angry, he didn't expect him to say a dry mouth, Jia Baoyu didn't even listen to a word, and even thought about going to see Daiyu.
Lin Ruhai directly refused: "You and Yu'er are now older, so naturally you should avoid some suspicions." ”
Jia Baoyu was thinking about Lin Daiyu wholeheartedly, and she didn't wake up in the past, and when she heard Lin Ruhai's words, she said a little unhappily: "Avoid suspicion, avoid suspicion, Sister Lin and I grew up together since childhood, and we have never avoided suspicion, why Sister Lin went back, there were so many more hateful rules!" ”
Lin Ruhai was extremely unhappy when he heard Jia Baoyu's words, although Daiyu had a close relationship with him, he couldn't be so open-mouthed.
However, he felt that after all, the Jia family did not educate Jia Baoyu well, and still raised Jia Baoyu in the fat powder heap, resulting in Jia Baoyu still not having the awareness of male and female defense, and he did not realize that his behavior would affect the reputation of his daughter's family.
So Lin Ruhai patiently taught Jia Baoyu again, and at the same time wanted to persuade Jia Baoyu to study hard to gain fame.
Jia Baoyu could listen patiently at first, but when he heard Lin Ruhai persuade him to pursue fame and fortune, he couldn't listen anymore, and then impatiently offered to leave.
Lin Ruhai sighed in his heart, what Jia Baoyu and Shi Taijun and Jia Zheng said were too different, and there was another layer of hidden worries about his daughter's marriage.
sighed for a long time, Lin Ruhai finally sent a letter to Jia Zheng, asking Jia Baoyu to go to the Lin Mansion every day to listen to lectures, and he personally taught Jia Baoyu, wanting to lead Baoyu to the right path.
On September 25, Lu Jing and his sister Lu Zhiyu and Ge Yin traveled all the way to Beijing.
As soon as he arrived at the dock, Ge Yin was picked up by the Ge family's relatives in Beijing.
Lu Zheng, the manager of the Lu family in Beijing, also brought people to greet Lu Jing's brothers and sisters, and then everyone came all the way to the newly bought house of the Lu family in Beijing.
The Lu family's new house is located in the west of Qimen Street, which connects Zhuque Street and Langui Street from east to west.
The house sits in the north and faces south, the gate is located in the southeast corner, with a garden inside, it is a courtyard with three entrances and three exits, which is divided into the front yard, the inner yard and the back yard.
The imperial court's regulations on the construction of mansions are limited to the gate and hall, not limited to the area, as long as you do not violate the regulations, you can build as big as the mansion.
In addition to the palace, the main gate of the mansion has the highest specification of the palace gate, which can only be used by the prince and the county king, the prince's palace gate is five rooms and three doors, and the gate of the county king's mansion and the prince's mansion is three rooms and one door.
The second is the Guangliang Gate, which can only be used by officials below the rank of prince and above of the third rank. Again, it is the Golden Pillar Gate, which can only be adopted by officials below the third rank and above the fifth grade.
Officials and scholars below the fifth grade mostly use the Ruyi Gate, the rich use the Barbarian Gate, and the common people use the walled door.
The rules of the main house are nine for the Son of Heaven and seven for the Lord. The halls of officials below the rank of prince and above of the third rank shall not exceed five rooms and nine frames. The halls in the homes of officials below the third rank and above the fifth rank shall not exceed five rooms and seven frames. The common people's house shall not exceed the system of three rooms and five frames, otherwise it will be a violation of the system and shall be punished according to the crime of trespassing.
The plaque of the Lu Mansion has been replaced on the gate of the new house, and after entering the gate, there is the front yard.
The front yard consists of a row of inverted seats, a shadow wall, a screen door, a hanging flower door, a garden main entrance and a verandah. The inverted seat room is where the male servants and miscellaneous servants live, and the firewood room and utility room are all set up here.
The outer courtyard is a place for ordinary hospitality, and Lu Jing has already planned the two houses on the east side as a side hall and an outer study room, as a place for ordinary hospitality and reading.
The Hanging Flower Gate is also known as the Second Gate, which inhabits the female dependents, is a private space belonging to the owner's family, and the general outsiders can only wait and stay in the outer courtyard, and the male servant is not allowed to enter the Hanging Flower Gate unless there are any special circumstances.
After entering the hanging flower gate, there is the inner courtyard, which is composed of a courtyard, a main house, an east-west cross-courtyard, an east-west wing, a hand-copying verandah and a double deer ear room.
Across the courtyard, facing the hanging flower door are three main rooms, one on the left and one ear room, the main room is the highest specification, the highest position of the room, but also the hall stipulated in the etiquette system, Lu Jing is now the head of the Lu family, naturally to live in the main house.
The main room is composed of one light and two dark, the bright room is used for the main hall living room, the west side of the main room is used as a bedroom, the east side is the inner study, and the two sides of the ear room are planned by Lu Jing as the inner warehouse.
On both sides of the main house are the east and west two cross-courtyards and the east and west wings, and the east and west cross-courtyards each have an embroidery room and two ear rooms.
Because the east courtyard is close to the garden, Lu Jing placed Lu Zhiyu in the east courtyard to facilitate her to play in the garden, and the west courtyard was temporarily vacant.
There are three houses in each of the east and west wings, which are the places where guests or heirs live, because the Lu family has a small population and there are no guests, the east and west wings are also temporarily vacant, and the Shuanglu ear room is used as a kitchen.
Bypassing the east cross courtyard, you can enter the backyard through the hall, and the entire backyard consists of a row of back cover rooms and podiums.
The back cover room is generally inhabited by concubines and daughters, Lu Jing has not yet married a wife, nor has he taken a concubine, but uses it as a warehouse, and the extra room is vacant, and the podium is where the maid and servant woman live.
The garden, named Yiyuan, is located on the east side of the inner courtyard, between the front and back yards, and is juxtaposed with the inner courtyard. There are two entrances, the main entrance is located on the east side of the shadow wall in the front yard, and the inner gate is located on the east side of the east side of the courtyard, which can be entered through the hall.
There are ponds and stone peaks, peach trees and ponds, and bamboo forests and plum gardens in the garden.
There are three buildings in it, namely Qingyin Pavilion, Tingyu Pavilion and Moyan Pavilion.
Entering the Yiyuan Garden from the main entrance, the first thing that catches your eye is more than a dozen inscriptions, which are the ink posts left by the guests when Qi Hanlin, the previous owner of the garden, entertained guests, and Qi Hanlin selected more than a dozen excellent works from them and engraved them on the stone tablet.
Passing through the stele forest, you will see a huge stone peak, surrounded by dozens of pine trees on both sides of the stone peak, and the two form a huge screen, blocking the landscape in the park, which is called Cangsong Peak.
Dozens of steps after passing through the pine peak is a peach forest, named Peach Blossom Spring, taken from 'spring is full of peach blossom water, do not distinguish where to find the source of immortals. ’
There are several peaks of strange stones in the peach blossom garden, standing in the middle, and one of the stone screens is engraved on it: "The peach blossoms are shallow and deep, like painting pink makeup." Where is the warm spring, just like all the Tingfang. ”
After passing through the Peach Blossom Spring, there is a stage, called Qingyin Pavilion, which is a place to listen to operas.
After one hundred and ten steps of Qingyin Pavilion, it is a small pond dug artificially, named Yiqing Pond, taken from 'out of the silt but not stained, clear ripples but not demons, straight through the outside, not vines and branches, fragrant and clear, pavilion net planting, can be seen from a distance and can not be blasphemed. ’
The water in the pond is clear, lotus flowers are planted all over, two or three bamboo rafts are moored on the water surface, and there is a bamboo bridge on the pond water, which is called Cuiyun Bridge.
There is a stone screen at the entrance of Cuiyun Bridge, which reads: "The lotus leaf is five inches of lotus flowers, and the waves do not hinder the painting of the boat." In April and May, it can also cover the waist of a beauty. ”
After passing the pond along the Cuiyun Bridge, the east and west sides are each a wind bamboo forest, in the middle of the bamboo forest and the pond, there is a rain listening pavilion, when it rains, you can hear the sound of wind and rain through the forest and beating the leaves.
In the bamboo forest, the lawn is planted, and the bamboo forest is reflected in the green.
After the wind bamboo forest is the plum blossom garden, the strange stones in the plum blossom garden are craggy, the plum tree and the strange stone are distributed intertwined, contrast with each other, in the middle of which stands a heavy eaves octagonal pavilion, named Moyan Pavilion, is the place to enjoy the plum after the snow.
Lu Jing wrote to explain everything before entering Beijing, and now the whole courtyard is as clean as new, spotless, fully furnished, the bedding is brand new, and the daily necessities are all available, and there is no need to clean it up.
Lu Jing commanded everyone to put the salute in place, and then led Lu Zhiyu around the house, especially Yiyuan, the two had a good tour, and they loved the scenery in the garden very much.
When it was time to be in the unitary, Lu Jing asked Lu Zheng to order wine and food from the Xiangmanlou and held a banquet in the new mansion, inviting everyone in the Lu Mansion to celebrate the joy of moving to a new home.
Yuhua Lou and Xiangmanlou are the two restaurants of the Lu family in Beijing, mainly dealing in Jiangnan specialties, because Jiangnan has many officials in Beijing, so the business of these two restaurants is good.
These two restaurants are being managed by Lu Zheng, and the shopkeeper of Xiangmanlou learned that it was the owner who ordered the banquet, and quickly sent the wine and food over.
There were not many people Lu Jing brought into Beijing on this trip, and most of them still stayed in the ancestral house of the Lu family in Gusu.
At this time, only the second housekeeper Lu Bei, the guards Wu Ze, Chen Ji, Lu Lian, Lu Wu, Yinglian, Youxia, Qingqiu, Qing'er, Lu Zhiyu's side Qi Mama, Luo Mei, An Lan, Rouju, Sizhu, two cooks, plus Lu Zheng, the steward of Beijing, Yao Li, the account room, and several servants, a total of more than 20 people.
The people sat at three tables, and the men and women of the master and servant were divided.
After the banquet, Lu Bei arranged for the servants to clean up the remnants, and Lu Jing asked Mama Qi to temporarily take care of the maids and mothers-in-law at home, arrange a place for them to live, and plan the work she was responsible for in the near future.
After Lu Jing arranged all the things in the house, he invited Lu Zheng to ask about the major events that had happened in Beijing recently.
Lu Zheng reported one by one, including the death of Qin Keqing of Ningfu and Jia Zhen's wanton operation.
Lu Jing sighed secretly in his heart, Qin Keqing really said in the book, he passed away in September, Lin Ruhai's fate has changed a lot through his participation, and Lin Daiyu will not die young, but I don't know how the fate of other characters will change.